the war in the west. 1941 to 1945 and later on saturday 7:00, george p. bush, jose mendez and phil collins talk b about the spanish mission, the alamo, at the 2016 texas tribune festival in auctionen. the memories i have, this group of people were going and they knew they were going to die. but they went. or they were there. there was something very noble and romantic. i ve learned it wasn t quite black and white. that s one of the things i think would be good in day and age. we put it into context! then sunday evening at 6:00 on american artifacts. mcarthur is up front. not wear iing a weapon. he could lead attacks carrying nothing but that riding crop. you see in his left hand. the men looked at this and realized, hey, if the colonel can take it, well, i can take it, too. we visit the mcarthur memorial to learn about his e l early life, who commanded allied forces in the pacific during world war ii. and at 8:00 the great leaders also serve conscious with with the
chris makowsky discusses the battle of spots silvainian courthouse which pitted ulysses grant against robert several lee s confederate army. he details the movements and military tactics employed by lee and grant and gives special attention to the union assaults at parts of the battlefield known as the mule shoe and bloody angle. after two weeks of fighting the armies disengaged without a clear victor. lee failed to stop grant s drive south toward richmond this talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. i m delighted to be able to share with you the story of spots sylvania. if you ve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. it s pristine. there are a few monuments out there, but you re seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. the tree lines are pretty accurate. the fields are pret
if you ve had the chance to walk around particularly out at the mule shoe, you know what a beautiful landscape it is, easily one of the best preserved civil war landscapes that we have available to us. it s pristine. there are a few monuments out there, but you re seeing what the soldiers saw in 1864 when they first arrived. the tree lines are pretty accurate. the fields are pretty accurate. then over course of two years like a swarm of locusts they transformed that landscape so dramatically that the traces of it are still there today. if you want to after our program this afternoon, i ll be happy to show you some of those traces here at stevenson ridge. but i hope over the course of my talk, i ll be able to help you understand some of those traces that still exist so the next time you go out there, you can see for yourself the story still written on had most beautiful of landscapes. to understand how the armies got here, we pick up where chris left off where they re fighting
a tremendous amount of force and violence. to is youhis points see these various experiences in different stories that have to be recovered in some way. i thought she said it beautifully about why these and deserve our attention. within that, you can understand and appreciate why men and women during the war and in the immediate aftermath why it was thissy for them to make sacred. dismiss that out of hand as a historian is problematic. i think it is also problematic even today. sometimes do that with a lost cause. we have engaged in a range of visitors who have had these views. that this quickly on understanding was important. to see that a frontal attack was not going to work with them. is that going to work you had ancestors of the confederate side area. i am not. you just might get conversation. i think his book on the confederate battle is excellent on dealing with this issue. it is a very good book. we have answered this question with the first doctor and we will set
in 1861. it started in these refugee camp s. i m going to start with two stories. the first one might be familiar. the story of how the contraband decision got handed down. it happened important role virginia. baker,ownsend, james shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. there are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. they knew they were about to go to north carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. were rebels really entitled? weren t they foreign country? you say you are a foreign country. said, i m confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. he even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. this spreads incredibly quickly. it is an in between status. property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. but whatever the ambiguities of contraban